Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-14 Thread Kieren Diment
As as lone wolf part time developer, I have to say that transparent debugging is massively important to me. As is CPAN. Anyway, I added an advocacy section to the Wiki where I put a link to jon's software review, and Jayk's rather nice reply. ___ List:

Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Kieren Diment
On 14/02/07, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being selected as the language of choice by those who make the decisions, I thought I should write up my experience (as the CTO who gets to make the decisions) as to why we chose Perl, Catalyst, DB

Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Jay K
s, Leandro -Original Message----- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 14:08 To: catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Subject: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being selected as the language of choice by those wh

Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Hulme
> Any insight or advice as to why would one prefer a Perl stack over a > Java or .NET one? For me, one of Perl's big wins, particularly in an enterprise situation, is testing. Test::More is still the easiest-to-use testing framework I've experienced. Adding tests is easy, automating tests is easy,

RE: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread John Napiorkowski
--john > > Thanks, > > Leandro > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 14:08 > > To: catalyst@lists.rawmode.org > > Subject: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Cataly

Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Hermida, Leandro wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Do not want to start any kind of language war or anything - just need > some concrete, objective opinions and advice. We are starting a brand > new web application + services + database project and my boss ("those > who make the decisions") asked me as p

RE: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Hermida, Leandro
nal Message- > From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 14:08 > To: catalyst@lists.rawmode.org > Subject: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst > > Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being > selected as the language of

Re: [Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Jon wrote: > Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being selected as > the language of choice by those who make the decisions, I thought I > should write up my experience (as the CTO who gets to make the > decisions) as to why we chose Perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class for our system > p

[Catalyst] Why I chose Perl and Catalyst

2007-02-13 Thread Jon
Following the discussion late last year about Perl not being selected as the language of choice by those who make the decisions, I thought I should write up my experience (as the CTO who gets to make the decisions) as to why we chose Perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class for our system platform. I've finall